benwilber0

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by benwilber0 9y ago
> anonymized using tor+crypto I'm sure sure how that would work? How do you send a bio sample over the internet?
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by benwilber0 9y ago
People already post their 23andMe "results" on their dating profiles to say "I'm clean and healthy with good genetics!" The GATTACA society is rapidly becoming reality, just not institutionalized yet.
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by benwilber0 9y ago
I've never done one of these genetic tests. Partly because it's scary to me to learn what diseases I'm likely to get as I get older, but also I just don't want that information in some else's database. We're
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by benwilber0 9y ago
* Google refuses to support Amazon Prime Video on Chromecast. * Amazon refuses to sell Chromecast devices. There's nothing really "anti-competitive" going on here. Two consumer tech giants are refusing to support each others
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by benwilber0 9y ago
> The inner ear facilitates the cheetah's remarkable ability to maintain visual and postural stability while running and capturing prey at speeds of up to 65 miles per hour. Until now, no one has investigated the inner ear's ro
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by benwilber0 9y ago
Love and use IRCCloud everyday. Well worth the $5 or whatever to have a truly great IRC client in browser (and it's by far the best on Android). People still ask me why I pay for IRC because it just sounds crazy given the glut of hig
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by benwilber0 9y ago
> Before I move on to the next topic I want to raise one more narrow, distributed ledger or "blockchain"-related legal issue by means of a hypothetical. I doubt anyone in this audience thinks it would be acceptable for a public
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by benwilber0 9y ago
I've been using DuckDuckGo for a few months since I switched to the new Firefox. It's generally OK but I can tell that the results are just ever so slightly worse than Google. I get irrelevant results and old results. It's
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by benwilber0 9y ago
> Even if amazon doesn't pay taxes I think this is being overstated. Amazon may get a very generous tax break for something like twenty years, but they will almost certainly still be paying more net tax yearly than all but the very
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by benwilber0 9y ago
I'm not seeing the point that you're trying to make. Are you suggesting that Philadelphia (or any major metropolis) would not benefit from the sudden windfall infusion of 50,000+ high-paying jobs? I think every small business ow
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by benwilber0 9y ago
this LPE would allow anyone to install a kext rootkit on the machine. how is that not serious?
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by benwilber0 9y ago
LPE's are very serious for the countless college campuses, public libraries, and design print shops like Kinkos that offer public access to Mac computers.
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by benwilber0 9y ago
This is the KYC (Know Your Customer) laws. Online-only banks like Ally and Simple require the same thing. In fact, every bank requires this. If you opened a bank account in-person some years ago you may not remember but they asked you for
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by benwilber0 9y ago
It varies by sport and how accurate you need your timers to be. NBA needs a timer within "seconds" -- Formula 1 and NASCAR need timers within milliseconds.
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by benwilber0 9y ago
System clock synchronization is a really hard problem but especially important for things like live video stream encoding where the frame timestamps need to correspond to the real wall-clock (within milliseconds) for things like sub-second
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by benwilber0 9y ago
> It is limited to 21 million units A "unit" consists of 100,000,000 "satoshis", just as 21 million "dollars" consists of 2,100,000,000 pennies. It's just an arbitrary unit of denomination. I guess th
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by benwilber0 9y ago
Is it possible to apply a dynamic filter graph a la FFMPEG? For instance, ingest two RTMP streams and apply a filter to overlay one on top of the there in a PIP configuration while preserving both audio tracks? That would be very useful
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by benwilber0 9y ago
I think this is designed for OTT video broadcasting and not so much video conferencing. RTMP remains the defacto standard for push ingest, although that it changing with the wider adoption of HEVC, which RTMP can't carry.
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by benwilber0 9y ago
yes of course
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by benwilber0 9y ago
that doesn't protect you from GitHub employees snooping around.
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by benwilber0 9y ago
twitter is out of ideas.
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by benwilber0 9y ago
edited thanks. he even explicitly said that it was unbreakable in the article I linked :-).
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by benwilber0 9y ago
Not exactly "innovative", since it's one of the oldest encryption methods, but the One-Time Pad[0] is considered "perfect encryption" and proven to be unbreakable. The mere possibility of unbreakable encryption cou
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by benwilber0 9y ago
If a government really wanted access to a specific user's ProtonMail account, couldn't they get a court order from a domestic CA, say Verisign, to generate a fake certificate that they can use to MITM a browser session, and delive
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by benwilber0 9y ago
Yeah I agree with that. I guess we could extend the "Thank you"s down beyond Git to K&R and those before them. Because without C Git would not exist. But Git's invention was recent enough, in the context of Github, that
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by benwilber0 9y ago
The author should rather be extending a loud "Thank you" to Linus Torvalds. While he didn't invent DVCS, he certainly mainstream'd it with git. Github would not have existed without Git. Linus invented both Linux and G
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by benwilber0 9y ago
> it may be time to seriously consider alternatives they have multi-az support if you use it
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by benwilber0 9y ago
> Is Riak so critical to Bet365 that the right move was to _buy the company_ versus switching to a different storage system? Quite possibly, yes. Data has incredible inertia. Not only because of the storage system used, but also all
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by benwilber0 9y ago
> Since launching its industrial IoT effort five years ago, GE has spent billions selling the internet of things to investors, analysts and customers. > spent billions Does that seem realistic to anyone? I'm sure they've
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by benwilber0 9y ago
On the other hand be careful with chargebacks especially against a retailer (Sony PlayStation store) that you would like to keep your account with. They could very easily just close your account and then your PlayStation is mostly worthles

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